> I like the color of the moss. I love the crystals.  But this line of
>  shrooms bugs me.  While my eye is looking at the centerpiece
> crystal, my brain is tugging me to the two shrooms with the same
> s-shaped stem. Which then makes me aware that there is a line of
> shrooms. I almost mentioned in the last version that I would change
> one of those two stems.  And it might not even be as noticeable this
> version because the foreground s-stem is in shadow.  But I can't
> unsee it to tell. :)

   The similar stems are just a coincidence, because every mushroom has a
randomly generated sphereweep for the stem, and them they are randomly
rotated around y. Indeed the spheresweep has only 4 points, so it's not
that difficult to end up with similar stems.

> I'm not a big fan of the focal blur.  It looks fine on the background
>  shrooms top-left, but it looks cheesy on the front left clump of
> shrooms.

   This one is not casual, but a flaw on my thinking... I used a pigment
function to place the mushrooms in clumps, and I badly chose "leopard"
without realizing it is too regular.

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jaime

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